Annual Obesity Report Finds Thinner Tennessee

Tennessee has ranked as high as second in the nation for obesity rate but has fallen to 15th.

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Originally published on September 12, 2018 10:19 pm

An annual report tracking obesity rates state-by-state finds Tennessee to be a little bit thinner than the previous year, especially compared to other southern states.

Tennessee fell several positions to having the 15th-highest obesity rate in the nation.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been tracking these stats going back to 1990, when just one in nine Tennesseans were considered obese. Now, it's one in three, but that's down slightly. Tennessee has at times ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation.